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10 P.M. (NBC) HANNIBAL The season ends as Hannibal (Mads Mikkelsen) turns on Will (Hugh Dancy, above right, with Mr. Mikkelsen) after Will arrives home without Abigail (Kacey Rohl). Jack (Laurence Fishburne) and the team find evidence that Will murdered her — and may actually be the Copy Cat Killer. Things get uglier as Will plots his escape and takes Hannibal back to Minnesota to clear his name.

11:30 A.M. (Sundance) AWAY FROM HER (2007) Fiona and Grant, a long-married couple played by Julie Christie (in an Oscar-nominated role) and Gordon Pinsent, confront Alzheimer’s disease in this feature directorial debut from Sarah Polley, who also received an Oscar nomination for her screenplay, based on an Alice Munro short story. “There is, in Ms. Munro’s mature work, a flinty wisdom about heterosexual love, a skepticism about romantic ideals that does not altogether deny their power or necessity,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times. Ms. Polley, he added, “shows an intuitive grasp of this wisdom and a welcome, unsentimental interest in the puzzles and pleasures of a long, imperfect marriage.”

6 P.M. (ABC Family) LETTERS TO JULIET (2010) Sophie, a magazine fact-checker played by Amanda Seyfried, below, arrives in Verona, Italy, on a prenuptial honeymoon of sorts with her restaurateur fiancé, Victor (Gael García Bernal). Then they go their separate ways. He hunts down culinary delicacies. She happens upon a group of Italian women known as Juliet’s secretaries, who gather letters written by lovelorn ladies and tucked between the stones of a wall beneath the most famous balcony in Verona. One day Sophie, who has joined the group, finds a note written decades earlier by Claire (Vanessa Redgrave), a British exchange student who ran back to England with cold feet after breaking her promise to meet a local beau. Lured by Sophie’s response, Claire returns to Verona with her romance-averse grandson, Charlie (Christopher Egan), whose immediate dislike of Sophie could well spell love. The film “represents an interesting paradox: It is a movie that is very nearly perfect without being especially good,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. Still, he praised Ms. Redgrave’s Claire as “effortlessly marvelous,” adding that she “imparts grace, authenticity and a sense of emotional gravity to a movie desperate for all of those things and unsure just how to manufacture them.” Of Ms. Seyfried, he said that the movie “is likely to consolidate her position as a certified movie star.”

9 P.M. (USA) BURN NOTICE Sam (Bruce Campbell) and Jesse (Coby Bell) travel to the Dominican Republic to help Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) with a high-stakes trade involving a bomber. In “Graceland,” at 10, Briggs (Daniel Sunjata) assigns the housemates to assist Lauren (Scottie Thompson) in her case against the Russian Mafia, and Charlie (Vanessa Ferlito) gets into trouble during a dangerous drug deal.

10 P.M. (FX) WILFRED A third season begins as Ryan (Elijah Wood) helps Wilfred (Jason Gann) search for his original owner. At 10:30, Ryan befriends Wilfred’s enemy, the mailman.

10 P.M. (OWN) OUR AMERICA WITH LISA LING In “God and Gays,” 10 men and women who underwent “reparative therapy” with Exodus International as a “cure” for their homosexuality confront Alan Chambers, the group’s president, who last year asked Ms. Ling for the opportunity to apologize for the practices of Exodus and to announce that it will cease to be known as an “ex-gay” organization.

12:10 A.M. (MoreMax) MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (2011) Elizabeth Olsen (below left, with Sarah Paulson) portrays Martha, a young woman who has escaped from a cult in rural New York and found refuge with her older sister, Lucy (Ms. Paulson), and brother-in-law, Ted (Hugh Dancy), at a lakeside vacation home. Martha has been renamed Marcy May by Patrick (John Hawkes), the leader of the cult who initiates female acolytes into the group by drugging and raping them. (Marlene is the all-purpose pseudonym female cult members use when answering the phone.) But life with Lucy and Ted has its own difficulties, and Patrick’s teachings aren’t easily purged. “Ms. Olsen’s performance is both the key to the film and the source of its sometimes frustrating opacity,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. Her character “remains a blank space in the middle of a film that is an impressive piece of work without achieving quite the emotional impact it intends.” KATHRYN SHATTUCK